Sula's Sketchbook

[Ursula Dorada]

[Joshua Meehan]

Wonderful sketchbook Sula! I love every update! Keep it up! In regards to that will to work, fight the urge to do nothing and keep trying to do at least something each day. Even if its just a sketch! You have the drive and determination keep it up and I look forward to the next entry.

[Ursula Dorada]

@Joshua: Thanks man! And yup, trying very hard on my side here ;)

So!
This week is self portrait week and I am having a bad hair week.
Bear with me.
My first ever self portrait, and haha I don't know if I will be able to endure all this grumpy-faceness of me.

[PoringMaster]

oh hey! I saw that portrait in Noah's! I'm loving the stuff you post! ;D

[Lyraina]

Oh that's very lovely :)
Also looks very alive (as in, not flat like a photo)!

[Wolkenfels]

you look nice!

[hollinrake]

I love the self portrait! Your skin has a really natural look to it and has some great form. Great stuff :)

[Craig Paton]

Great self portrait, nice brush stokes. :)

[Ursula Dorada]

haha whoa, thanks guys <3

@Poring: thanks!
@Lyraina: yay thank you <3 It is indeed a nice quality for doing it from life. There is so much more information to harvest!
@Wolken: hahah thanks xD
@Hollinrake: thank you <3
@Craig: thanks man :D I am digging this brush hehe

So, today's, trying to look less grumpy.

[Ursula Dorada]

Today's, with ambient light and lot of gray.
I does make room to see more subtle colors variations though.

[Ursula Dorada]

And a color sketch for good measure:

[Warburton]

wow, these latest portraits are awesome! Especially liking this latest colour sketch :o

By the way, you using photos or a mirror for the self portraits?

[Ursula Dorada]

@Warburton: Thanks man :D And nope, no photos allowed for this, only mirror :)

Today's
(I think I finally nailed the hair color)
...(what, nailing the hair color was actually as hard as it get D: lol)

[Ursula Dorada]

Crawling back from the darkness.
Revised the self portrait because people said I was looking to old. And a quick sketch to get out of the void.

[Ursula Dorada]

So, once every year I repaint this picture as a skill check.
Not sure its getting better, just different lol

[pearwood]

Very fine, Sula. It's been quite the extended series.

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I like your self-portraits.

[JakeB]

Awesome Sula! The self portraits look great. And that colour sketch portrait above is really cool, love the angle :).

[rainbowsorknives]

really nice portraits

[Ursula Dorada]

@Pearwood: :D I am actually curious to see how the next one will turn out. Next year!
@JakeB: Thanks man <3
@Rainbows: Thanks :)

So.
Some of you may know something big is going in Brazil right now. This is base on a historic photograph taken here yesterday - the people taking over our congress.
I am not really sure what is happening just yet, but its the biggest we have seen for a while, its peaceful, and people are not giving up.

The photo: http://media.roarmag.org/2013/06/Congres...esters.jpg

#ChangeBrazil

[pearwood]

Ah, so this is your sketch based on the protest photo? Very fine.